586 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Voted, To refer to a committee for report in the autumn the fol- 

 lowing proposed amendment to the Statutes : — Addition to 

 Chapter II, Art. 5, 



"Any Fellow shall also be exempt from annual dues who has 

 paid such dues for forty years, or, having attained the age of 

 seventy-five, has paid dues for twenty-five years." 



The following report of the Council was presented : — ■ 



Since the last report of the Council, there have been reported 

 the deaths of fifteen Fellows: — Edward Emerson Barnard, 

 Alexander Graham Bell, John Casper Brainier, Henry Herbert 

 Edes, Harold Clarence Ernst, George Lincoln Goodale, William 

 Stewart Halsted, Henry Marion Howe, Edward Williams Morley, 

 Edward Hall Nichols, Thomas Nelson Page, Alexander Smith, 

 John Trowbridge, Williston Walker, Robert Wheeler Willson; 

 and seven Foreign Honorary Members : — Heinrich Brunner, 

 Friedrich Delitzsch, Albert Venn Dicey, Hermann Diels, Henry 

 Jackson, George Walter Prothero, Eduard Seler. 



Nineteen Fellows and four Foreign Honorary Members were 

 elected by the Council and announced to the Academy in May 

 1922. One Fellow has declined election. 



The roll now includes 572 Fellows and 64 Foreign Honorary 

 Members (not including those elected in April 1923). 



The annual report of the Treasurer, Harold Murdock, was read, 

 of which the following is an abstract: — 



General Fund. 

 Receipts. 



Balance, April 1, 1922 17,037.54 



Investments 4,536.34 



Assessments 3,400.00 



Admissions 130.00 



Rumford Fund for payment in 1922 in error . 27.56 



Sundries 248.40 $15,379.84 



Expenditures. 



Assistant Librarian Emerita $250.00 



Expenses of Library 4,627 . 57 



